The idea of this training was born thanks to a Polish partner working in the field of languages and multiculturalism (Kontakt school) which is leading an Erasmus K2 project, a strategic partnership in the field of adult education titled: “Let's Teach Europe! European Heritage as a pedagogical and integration tool in adult education”. Thanks to international partners and a common work of research and studies, we matured experience in the valorization of Cultural Heritage and the creation of a methodological approach useful to enrich education and improve teachers’ competencies. 

According to Unesco 

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

Tangible cultural heritage:

• movable cultural heritage (paintings, sculptures, coins, manuscripts)

• immovable cultural heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, and so on)

• underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins, and cities)

Intangible cultural heritage: oral traditions, performing arts, rituals

• Natural heritage: natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapes, physical, biological, or geological formations

• Heritage in the event of armed conflict 

According to European official sources 

https://ec.europa.eu/culture/cultural-heritage 

Europe’s cultural heritage is a rich and diverse mosaic of cultural and creative expressions, an inheritance from previous generations of Europeans, and a legacy for those to come. It includes natural, built, and archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, historic cities, literary, musical, and audiovisual works, and the knowledge, practices, and traditions of European citizens.

While the policy in this area is primarily the responsibility of Member States, regional and local authorities, the EU is committed to safeguarding and enhancing Europe's cultural heritage through a number of policies and programs. 

Teaching Cultural Heritage is a very European tool because it aims at searching for our historical and cultural roots as Europeans. This is useful to develop European Citizenship competencies in students, to educate them to understand diversity and the importance of an intercultural approach to life. The topic of Cultural Heritage is furthermore connected with all subjects taught at school, history, geography, science, maths… as all subjects are connected, our roots in the different actual nationalities have a common ground. 

Target group

Teachers can be any kind of teacher working in a public or private school or educational institutions

Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. 

Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, especially schools of the territory. 

We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with an international spirit, at the local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).